J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.
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London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
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The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. … Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer.
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I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
